A Review of Psychological Studies on Children in Infancy, Early, and Middle Childhood:

In this paper, the thematic trends in poster presentations for early and middle childhood are first overviewed in the Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Japanese Association of Educational Psychology. Next, an overview of papers on issues of children's social skills and caregivers' involvements is given, which were the topics often addressed in the poster presentations. In particular, the target articles published in The Japanese Journal of Educational Psychology during the three-year period from July 2016 to June 2019, as well as in The Japanese Journal of Psychology, The Japanese Journal of Development Psychology, and other papers published in international academic journals during the one-year period from July 2018 to June 2019, are reviewed.